by Suzann Thompson | Sep 7, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
After the post about the National Button Society Convention, Woolwinder asked for pictures of moonglow and goofy buttons. Thanks to Peggy Ann Osborne’s book Button Button, I can tell you more about them than I could a few weeks ago. Moonglows are glass buttons...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 24, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
While at the Highlights Foundation Writers Conference last month, I met a lady named MJ who purposefully and successfully wears mismatched socks. She has some fabulous socks, too. And MJ unwittingly solved a problem for many knitters—the second sock syndrome, where...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 13, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We tagged along with my mom to the German Texan Heritage Society meeting last weekend. The girls and I took a couple of hours to shop at the venerable Yarn Barn of San Antonio, at 4300 McCullough. The Yarn Barn has an impressive selection of needlework books, old and...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 7, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
In 1949, my grandmother gave my mother a book for her birthday. It was the first craft book I ever saw as a kid. The title is Gestaltende Hände, ein Werkbuch für Mädchen, by Hildegard Fochs. That means Forming, Shaping, Modeling, Designing or maybe Creative Hands, a...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 3, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Chautauqua has the most Victorian-style gingerbread of anyplace I’ve ever been! Some of the houses look like they’ve been trimmed with lace. In fact, some of the pretty trims had me wishing for my crochet hook and some yarn. I was sure they would make good...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 17, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I’m away from home this week on an adventure unlike any I’ve ever had. It’s a conference for children’s writers at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, organized by the Highlights for Children Foundation. If you never had Highlights for...
